2011

RainDance Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of microdroplet-based solutions for single molecule and single cell analysis, today announced that it has closed a Series D financing round of $37.5 million.

2010

CardioDx, a pioneer in the field of cardiovascular genomic diagnostics, today announced that Corus™ CAD, the company’s blood-based gene expression test, has been honored as one of TIME Magazine’s Top Ten Medical Breakthroughs of 2010.

Scientists from Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB) and Harvard Medical School have successfully employed single molecule, real-time (SMRT™) DNA sequencing technology to rapidly characterize the pathogen responsible for the recent deadly cholera epidemic in Haiti. Published online Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the results provide the first whole genome sequence analysis and most detailed genetic profile to date of the Haitian Vibrio cholerae outbreak strain.